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English Dictionary: Sinai by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sinai
n
  1. a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments
    Synonym(s): Sinai, Mount Sinai
  2. a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt
    Synonym(s): Sinai, Sinai Desert
  3. a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
    Synonym(s): Sinai, Sinai Peninsula
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sinai, SD (town, FIPS 58900)
      Location: 44.24507 N, 97.04304 W
      Population (1990): 120 (63 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57061

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sinai
      of Sin (the moon god), called also Horeb, the name of the
      mountain district which was reached by the Hebrews in the third
      month after the Exodus. Here they remained encamped for about a
      whole year. Their journey from the Red Sea to this encampment,
      including all the windings of the route, was about 150 miles.
      The last twenty-two chapters of Exodus, together with the whole
      of Leviticus and Num. ch. 1-11, contain a record of all the
      transactions which occurred while they were here. From Rephidim
      (Ex. 17:8-13) the Israelites journeyed forward through the Wady
      Solaf and Wady esh-Sheikh into the plain of er-Rahah, "the
      desert of Sinai," about 2 miles long and half a mile broad, and
      encamped there "before the mountain." The part of the mountain
      range, a protruding lower bluff, known as the Ras Sasafeh
      (Sufsafeh), rises almost perpendicularly from this plain, and is
      in all probability the Sinai of history. Dean Stanley thus
      describes the scene:, "The plain itself is not broken and uneven
      and narrowly shut in, like almost all others in the range, but
      presents a long retiring sweep, within which the people could
      remove and stand afar off. The cliff, rising like a huge altar
      in front of the whole congregation, and visible against the sky
      in lonely grandeur from end to end of the whole plain, is the
      very image of the 'mount that might be touched,' and from which
      the voice of God might be heard far and wide over the plain
      below." This was the scene of the giving of the law. From the
      Ras Sufsafeh the law was proclaimed to the people encamped below
      in the plain of er-Rahah. During the lengthened period of their
      encampment here the Israelites passed through a very memorable
      experience. An immense change passed over them. They are now an
      organized nation, bound by covenant engagement to serve the Lord
      their God, their ever-present divine Leader and Protector. At
      length, in the second month of the second year of the Exodus,
      they move their camp and march forward according to a prescribed
      order. After three days they reach the "wilderness of Paran,"
      the "et-Tih", i.e., "the desert", and here they make their first
      encampment. At this time a spirit of discontent broke out
      amongst them, and the Lord manifested his displeasure by a fire
      which fell on the encampment and inflicted injury on them. Moses
      called the place Taberah (q.v.), Num. 11:1-3. The journey
      between Sinai and the southern boundary of the Promised Land
      (about 150 miles) at Kadesh was accomplished in about a year.
      (See MAP facing page 204.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sinai, a bush; enmity
  
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